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Welcome back to another episode of the Resellers Mindset Podcast.

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My name is Mike, also known as the used book guy on YouTube,

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along with my friend and fellow full-time reseller, Johnny B.

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We help people start and grow their reselling businesses from the ground up.

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We also have a weekly zoom call and private discord for all YouTube members.

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Head on over to youtube.com backslash use book guy to join the channel and gain

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access to the full length podcast zoom call and private discord today.

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Let's get into this week's episode.

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What is up everybody?

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Welcome into another episode, Resellers Mindset Podcast, Mike next to Johnny.

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Today's topic is a fun, but it is an important one.

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And I think there's two aspects to this.

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When should somebody quit reselling?

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And I'm not just talking about, Hey, you know, like I quit, I'm not getting results.

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You also can look at it from the other side as, Hey, I am retiring from reselling.

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I know this is unheard of.

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This is like, and there's no really YouTubers out there that are like,

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I'm retiring from reselling.

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It's like we resell until we're dead.

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But the other side of it is, Hey, I am not making the money I need to make.

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Maybe you were misled on the kind of belief of what the business would be

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and how profitable it would be.

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And I do believe if something doesn't work, you have to kind of

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throw into a tail at some point.

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I mean, I, if I can't pay the bills with what I do, I need to get a job.

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And that's just the reality of life.

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Maybe, you know, but even then, right, if you don't have any responsibility,

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maybe you live with someone else, your bills are super low.

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I still would argue that if you're not getting results that you should be,

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or like expect to get, then even at that point, when you don't have

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any financial responsibility, you should probably still move on to something

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that's going to make you some money.

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So Johnny, what are your thoughts on throwing into the tail with

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reselling or even retiring?

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I do plan to retire one day.

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Let me make that clear.

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I talk about it all the time.

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Everybody gets all riled up because I say, I don't want to do this

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when I'm seven years old.

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Listen, no offense to you out there hustling.

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I know there's a lot to be said for staying active in your later years of life.

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My active won't be carrying books and, you know, licking CDs and

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DVDs clean to sell on Amazon.

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So Johnny, take us away.

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Okay.

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Well, we'll start with the probably more apparent and obvious ones to

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the majority of our listeners here.

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When should you quit not retire reselling?

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So people that need to quit, my opinion, it's a couple of criteria.

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One, you are not making any money and you've tried everything you have

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been able to try and are still unsuccessful.

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So you either need to start selling something different or

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quit altogether, in my opinion.

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Criteria number two, you're part of multiple groups like Mike's here or

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reseller greatness or some other group.

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And you refuse to listen to any of the information people have given you.

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Myself included.

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I've given information to people who ignore me.

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And you know what?

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They are still are not making any money.

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Why?

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Well, because you didn't listen to the information that would have corrected

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the problem of you making money.

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Also, another criterion for when you're quitting, you too big for your britches.

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And what I mean by that is you spent a whole lot of money and your recoup

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costs turn around is not there.

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So maybe quit and start again, just stop and then start fresh like you should

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have, and you grow into what you want to be.

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Talking mainly to people who just charge everything.

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Oh, I'm going to get a warehouse.

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I'm going to buy all my inventory.

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Now my $10,000 credit card is now maxed and rent to do next month.

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And I don't got it.

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Well, maybe you should foreclose and start from your room, like everybody

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else did and start small and grow into it.

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That's the correct way to grow.

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In my opinion, for your retirees.

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Well, when you've made enough money, you've reinvested your money elsewhere.

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And you now are making what you would need to live on and then some off those

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investments, then I think you can start thinking along the lines of retiring.

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How much longer do you want to go?

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Do you want your new monthly income from these other investments to be slightly

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higher if not, well, you can plug pull whenever you want and, uh, I don't know,

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go golfing or sit by the beach.

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She can my ties next to some pool boy or girl.

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Those are options.

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How much per hour do you think you should make as a reseller?

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Like, I don't know, throw a number out there.

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Like how much you think as a reseller you should make per hour.

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If you broke everything down in your business, if you're full time, if you're

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not doing between 180, 250 an hour and your full time, like true full time.

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Um, and this accounts for investing in all that.

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That's the kind of money you would need on an hourly basis.

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Every hour you put in, you're doing between 180 and 250 of results of

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your efforts and work, in my opinion.

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Um, if you're doing bulk, it should be probably closer to that 250 mark.

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If you're not, if you're cherry picking, probably closer to the 180 and then

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somewhere in between range, in my opinion.

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number is way lower, but I'm not really speaking to those people.

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I'm speaking to people who decided to make this a career emphasis on career,

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not just a chuckles.

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I'll go down to the thrift store every once in a while and I'll get me

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some books and DVDs, make myself a box and call myself a reseller.

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That sounds like me, dude.

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Every once in a while I stumble into a thrift store.

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It's late at night.

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I'm drunk and I just grab a few things and I make a whole bunch of money.

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But I do think one person that should quit, if I had to like, try to identify

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like the characteristics and traits of somebody is somebody that jumps.

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To every shiny object that pops up in a reselling, whether that's business

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model, there's a million business models, right?

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We kind of only talk about bulk and cherry picking, but you got people that

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do a million different things behind the scenes you got, you know, in the Amazon

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world, Amazon, Amazon eBay to Amazon.

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There's so many different things in Amazon wholesale, uh, RA, OA, private label.

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I mean, the possibilities are endless.

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And it's the same with eBay, right?

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Uh, everything sellers that they know of a sudden, they want to start

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selling sports cards this month.

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And then next month they want to try video games.

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I think those people after three months of doing that kind of nonsense, you

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just need it, you're never going to gain traction or get results, no matter

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what crazy idea you come up with to stick with, it's fine to try different things.

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But those are experiments you're observing as you are currently building

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the current business you have.

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This isn't like, okay, well, I'm washing my hands immediately of what I have

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going on now, and I'm just jumping all into this other thing and I had no

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idea it's going to work, then people are never going to survive.

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And I see it all the time in the social media realm on YouTube.

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It's like, well, this doesn't work.

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Well, how long did you actually try to sell books on Amazon or sell

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CDs or DVD on Amazon?

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Well, I tried for two months.

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Well, is that really enough time to actually take six weeks to even get past

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the feet nonsense when you start?

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It's like, what's a, what's a time range you think to give something a shot to

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see if it's actually going to work before you decide, okay, this isn't working.

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Six months.

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And if you're getting mediocre results, add an additional six months on that to

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see if you can make them real results in my opinion.

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So for me, I think you're a little high on that.

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I don't think people as, as, as common sense as that makes Johnny, you have to

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realize the reason people got into reselling is cause it's flashy fast money.

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It's not six months money.

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It's, it's, I would say three months.

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I think three months is fair even for somebody who loves the flashiness to see,

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okay, I'm going to commit to something for three months.

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And this can be anything, right?

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Like maybe you want to start writing, you know, books, maybe you want to start

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publishing books on Amazon, KDP, right?

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You have to give yourself a chance.

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And one thing I kind of look back on myself and I prime myself on is if you

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don't get results for something, it's a, okay to be like, I gave it my best shot.

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I'm back in a way it is what it is.

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I'm going to try something else, but people can't seem to figure that out.

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It's like, I guess, I guess the same could kind of be said, like in

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relationships, right?

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It's like, if me and you hated each other and we just showed up to this every

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single week and like it would, and we just drug it out for years and years.

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And a lot of people's, you know, relationships kind of went up in the same

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spot.

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It's if you're not getting what you want out of something, it's fair to give it

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a shot, try to fix it.

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But at some point you got to walk away from it.

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I like how you made us sound like an old married couple.

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It's the truth, dude.

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I mean, it's the same way.

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It's not just business.

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It's life in general, whether no matter what you're doing in life, you go to a

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new job, maybe you don't like it the first month.

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Maybe you're not, you know, maybe it's a commission job.

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Like how many sales jobs people start and it's like, Oh, well, this

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job's 90% commission.

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Well, of course you're not going to be making the money in the first month.

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You don't even have a client list.

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Things take time to build, but at some point, if you ain't getting the results,

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I can't be the guy that sells solar panels on 90% commission for six months.

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And I'm selling one solar panel a month.

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Like I can't pay the bills with that.

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And I have to say, okay, well, I appreciate the opportunity, but now I'm

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going to go get a job that pays me per hour, so I'm guaranteed X amount of money.

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Oh, I'll, I'll give you a three month timeline.

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If that person day one looks at all the numbers or at least learns where they're

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located so they know where to look at them by the, by a full wake, they should

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know and be looking at their numbers every day, documenting things, keeping

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track, um, as well as learning all the little nuances that go with all these

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things, um, where things are located on the Amazon or eBay windows, how do.

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You're striving to improve yourself over the course of this three months.

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It's not wait two months in.

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Okay.

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Now I need to learn title structure.

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If you're doing eBay.

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Okay.

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Now I need to look at how many units I'm packing in a box because there's

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costs associated with that.

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Now you don't, you don't wait to do these things.

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You need to be thinking about these things from day one, or at least by week

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two, because now you, now you've done it.

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You're okay.

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These are all the things wrong that I'm fixing.

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And also these are all the things I need to concentrate and hone in on.

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If you're doing, if you're doing that kind of business, yeah, I'll say

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three months is enough, but what happens and what I see in multitudes of groups

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that people we associate with, they wait so long during their reseller

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career to start improving.

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And it's like, why?

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We don't say anything new week to week, really?

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No, it's the same old spiel.

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Why are you waiting this long to start implementing what we're advising you to do?

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I don't understand.

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I people, people probably hate me for what I'm about to say.

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Good.

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I, I still can't wrap my head around it.

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How you can spend 40 hours a week in a reselling business is

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like, I'm not going to spend 40 hours a week in a reselling business and make.

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You know, $400, $500, uh, you know, like, and I honestly, I'm trying to think to

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myself, like, if I had to spend 40 hours a week in an eBay business, like.

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Where does the time go?

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Because I've never been that person, or, you know, like I'm all about processes

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saving as much time as I can with Amazon.

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So, like, 40 hours a week in an eBay business, unless I have an unlimited

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amount of items to list, I mean, what, what else really is there to do?

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Like enlighten me, like how I should spend 40 hours and where am I even

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going to spend my 40 hours?

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Like, it's gotta be like 75% of it's listing, right?

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I would assume like 75% of your time on an eBay business is going to be listing.

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Am I right?

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Am I wrong?

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Where am I at here, dude?

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You know, you're right on that.

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You're pre-processing for your photo prep.

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I mean, well, the pre-processing, that's not so bad.

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It may take you a couple hours with the...

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Oh yeah.

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If you're doing like clothing and sneaks, you got to clean this stuff.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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I see.

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All right.

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I'll give you some time for that.

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Yeah.

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I mean, then your photos, that'd probably another couple hours there.

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And then majority of it, yeah, it's going to be listing and a little bit of shipping.

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And then, okay, let's say you didn't have the 500 hours.

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So let's throw in, I don't know, 10 or 12 of that 40 hour work week, maybe 15 to source.

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But still the majority of it is going to in fact be listing, especially when you're

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starting, because you're not going to know what you're doing.

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You could try selling similar, but again, if you notice things in that week to two

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week timeframe I gave you, those sell similar things, there's so much wrong

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information in there, you're going to notice this and be like, this is wrong.

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Flat out.

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This is wrong.

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And then you're going to have to correct it.

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And then you know, for a doctor to do that.

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So then it's going to take you longer and you're going to have to start from

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scratch and then learning your starting over strategy and then improving those

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processes.

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But again, this 40 hours, it's going to shrink dramatically once your process is

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improved.

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And then what's going to happen is you're going to want to up your listing thing,

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which makes the other things take longer.

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Even your shipping is going to go up.

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And that's probably the shortest thing in all of this is the shipping.

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What do you think the average hours per week worked by eBay sellers is overall

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including people that, yeah, like 10, you said 12 or less.

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Yeah, probably between 12 and 16 hours, I would say, because if we're encompassing

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all of resellers, I'm going to say half of that is going to be them sourcing,

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looking around, reandering to find what I like to call grail shopping.

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And well, they settle for not grails.

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And that's what they take home with them because they didn't find any grails.

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And that's what they then have to list because that's what they brought home with

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them.

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Or they put it in that pile that they never get around to.

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That's most resellers in my opinion.

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Yeah, I agree.

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It might even be less than that.

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And I don't think there's anything wrong with the person that has the eBay

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business and maybe they're brand new or maybe they've been around for a while

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and they want to spend the least amount of time in that eBay business that they

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possibly can.

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I think people get people get offended when you say, well, you know, I'm full

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time eBay.

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And then they're like, well, how many hours you're putting in?

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You're like, well, 15 hours.

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And it's like, no, you're not.

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How dare you say you're full time.

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You're only putting in 15 hours.

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I think that type of mindset of not wanting to be, you know, in eBay's

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warehouse, AKA your warehouse all day, every day is how you're going to make

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leaps and bound jumps to the point where, okay, you don't have to be in the

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business 40 hours a week.

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Maybe that person who's like myself, like kind of my Amazon business, 20 hours a

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week.

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Maybe that person hires an employee.

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Like the person that's working 50 hours a week should have did should have did

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five years ago.

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Right.

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I mean, if you're, I can see an Amazon seller hiring a shipper where they

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they're the ones that pack the boxes and then the owner, whoever they are, their

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job is just to go back and bring the stuff, maybe price it, or maybe that's

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the shipper's job too.

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But anyway, you can run a very 40 hour, good 40 hour Amazon business.

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A week business with two people.

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I promise you.

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If you're, if you still have a full time job and you're doing this on part time,

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it's hard to bring on an employee because you're only putting in part time hours.

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That's why most people don't have employees that we, that we talk to on a

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regular basis just because they aren't putting in the full time hours to get

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the full time results.

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In my opinion, they want more money.

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Then they think it'll come with just, I'm not saying work longer, but I'm

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saying work longer hours.

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Maybe you source different kinds of materials.

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You aren't sending in the $5 DVDs anymore.

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Maybe you're upping your game to the box set criterion only kind of model where

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your ASP is 50 bucks per item, but you're going to spend five hours to find one of

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those.

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So you got to, how many hours do you have to work with and how can you maximize

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those dollars per hour, per hour kind of thing?

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Like are you better off spending that hour going to a yard sale, buying the

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whole crate of books or box of books on the ground?

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Are you better off?

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Okay.

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I'm going to spend an hour online, find a lot that has what I just mentioned in

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there by that way for it to arrive, process it, figure out how to get rid of

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the junk or I don't know, go drive to that place.

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It's 30 minutes out of your way.

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Go in there, look around, be prepared to walk out with nothing because your, your

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model's different.

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So there's all kinds of models.

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I don't know.

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It, it, and if you're, that's the thing too.

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If you're failing at one model, what, what does it hurt to try another model?

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Yeah, but you got to realize you're failing.

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That's a problem.

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People can't accept the fact they're doing something and it's not working.

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Well, well, the telltale sign of this is, is your bank account going up at the end

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of the day, that's all that matters is your bank account going up or at least

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maintaining the same of what is acceptable.

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It should always be going up in my opinion.

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Well, somebody commented on a YouTube post that made the other day when I said,

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I don't know nothing about books.

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I just like the money I can make from books.

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And they said, well, money's not everything.

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They're full of shit.

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That's, that's, that's literally, that's what we're wearing right through my mind.

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I said, listen, I understand.

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Like I'm not like out here, like money, money, money, money, money, but at the

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end of the day, like I need money to survive.

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Yeah.

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I mean, um, the, the, the quote, everybody knows money can't buy happiness, but it

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certainly can buy a peace of mind.

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Bills are paid.

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We're going to eat today.

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I think another, another kind of person I wanted to talk about is the person that

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is always trying to directly compare themselves to somebody else.

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Um, you know, like if I started on eBay and, you know, I'm like, Oh, I want to,

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you know, I want to sell you as clothes and like tech and sports, and I want to

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do tech and sports numbers, like everybody's business is different in reselling.

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And that direct comparison is never going to get you nowhere.

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Right?

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Like if I compare myself to the largest bookseller every single day, I'm

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never going to win that battle.

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Right?

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I think you have to be consistent within yourself and your business.

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And with time, you will get results.

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And the perfect example of this is when we started this podcast, when I started

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YouTube, we had nobody listening, no subscribers, no nothing, but every week

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that the videos come out, the episodes come out with time, you gain traction.

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If you're doing things the right way, consistency over time, you're

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only going to continue to grow.

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For some reason, it's so hard to get that through to people is just be consistent.

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Focus on what's working and you won't ever have to worry about quitting

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because your business will keep growing until you get to a point where you

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don't have any more time to keep growing.

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You're not going to remember this, but I do.

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You remember back when he used to do those like one to two hour Q and a streams?

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, you were giving out some good information during one of those.

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And I saw some people tip you like a dollar, $5.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I gave you 50 bucks and I still remember the look on your face.

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Whoa, $50.

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And this is back in your infancy stage, right?

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When you were just starting your channel, that was a big deal.

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I bet it was a big deal, but I still remember that.

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What you were giving out was just pound for pound solid information.

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That was, that was worth $50.

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You saved me some time, more than $50 worth of time, but I'm kind of cheap.

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So I just gave you 50 bucks, but no, I mean, paying you $50, you saved me some

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time, but paying you $50 for $500 worth of information or more, or.

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Expand throughout my career.

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That's worth it to me.

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And people got to understand that too.

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That same kind of investment could be for your sourcing too.

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It, if you invest in, I don't know, a better printer that improves your

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processes or a cart, so you're not hand carrying things back and forth.

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You've made those kinds of investments, either for knowledge or for a tool

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that speeds you up, you're just going to make more money off the long run.

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And it pays for itself in spades.

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I think, like being excited about what you do and like, I'm like, the money

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excites me, Johnny, you know, like I get excited when I get paid every two weeks

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from Amazon, the money excites me.

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And I think with reselling, if you're not enjoying yourself and it can't just be,

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well, I love sourcing, right?

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Cause Johnny just said the person that should call it quits is the person that's

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into this right now and has a death pile of 500 items and they're still going out

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to the thrift store today, like you're not, you're never going to get nowhere.

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Why are we sourcing when we have the inventory already to list, you

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already paid for that inventory.

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It's not even like potential profit.

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It's money lost at this point because it's not listed.

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Like it's not sold.

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It's that's the biggest thing to me is be consistent with everything in the business.

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You can't be consistent sourcing and not consistent listing.

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That doesn't work.

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eBay, Amazon, you got to get things listed to sell it.

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If you're, if you don't enjoy listing, you hate listing, you don't list, then

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100% you need to quit because the only way you're ever going to make money

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reselling is if you list the stuff you buy.

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What's a kicker to me about this whole statement is on Amazon, we got that

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fair pricing thing, like I did my job.

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I sent it in, it should be for sale, but now it's an Amazon's dirty back room,

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not for sale because now I got to think of a number to put on it or drill it

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down to where it'll finally come back up for sale.

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It's there and it's costing me money every month, every time it's not for sale.

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So it's like, that's a weird version of an Amazon death pile is that fair pricing

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thing, but anyway, I'm getting off topic.

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When you should call it quits.

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If you complain about the platform you sell on every other day.

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Oh yeah, please do.

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If you're spending more time watching YouTube than working, there's a problem.

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If you're in total research mode for 75% of your work.

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That's like 0.0001% of a resell.

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Let's get real here.

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Watching YouTube does not make you money.

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It gives you some knowledge to make money with, but if you sit there and

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treat it as, I don't know, a binge watching college course, you're doing it wrong.

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I'm sorry.

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You were, no, I'm not sorry.

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I apologize for that statement.

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You were in fact doing it wrong.

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All right.

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I need my editor to edit out that.

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So people continue to watch my YouTube channel.

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But no, I hear that and I hear about, Oh, did you see this on YouTube?

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Or do you see that?

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No, I don't got time to watch weird things on YouTube.

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Maybe we can come out with a magazine.

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That's like all the reselling news wrap up, right?

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And then you just buy the magazine once a week.

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It's like people magazine, but it's like, I don't know.

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It's just, it'd be a very slim magazine because in my magazine, it's only

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things that would matter.

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We go into it.

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Maybe it's like a one sheet pamphlet.

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Cause the rest of it's just garbage and flash.

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I'm guilty of that though.

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Like when I first started to resell and like the amount of people I was

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subscribed to, the amount of content I consumed instead of, you know, actively

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getting out there and finding stuff.

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It's, it's hard, you know, like that's, that's it, Johnny.

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Like we all don't live in our warehouses like you.

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Like we just want to sit around and watch YouTube videos and talk

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to our favorite resellers.

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And, you know, and for me, it's even tougher now, especially since we've

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had so many YouTube resellers on the podcast, right?

474
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,240
Like I want to support people that, you know, have come on the channel

475
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,280
and like, I enjoy watching her videos, but I'm in the same boat where.

476
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,960
I can't just sit here all day and watch YouTube videos.

477
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,720
I can't just sit here all day and watch everybody's video.

478
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:17,960
Right.

479
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,840
If I think about how many YouTubers we've had on the podcast that are resellers

480
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:25,360
is like, I don't have enough time in my day to watch all the videos and comment.

481
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:26,040
Many.

482
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:26,480
Yeah.

483
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:31,400
It's like, um, if somebody mentioned that's in the reselling world, they

484
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,240
mentioned to me, Hey, you should watch this video.

485
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:34,320
It's got some good info in it.

486
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:39,720
I'll watch those, but very rarely do I go out and just, well, who am I subscribed

487
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,120
to, I need to catch up on their videos.

488
00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:44,760
I used to do that, but I just don't got time for that these days.

489
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,160
Maybe when it, maybe when we go to that other part of the spectrum that we're

490
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,880
talking about, when it's time to retire, maybe then I'll catch up on everybody's

491
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,480
channels 10 years later.

492
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:54,120
Yeah.

493
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,800
Well, the retirement conversation is pretty easy here, right?

494
00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:02,600
Put money aside now, even if it's $20 a month, $50 a month, whatever that is to

495
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:07,240
you, um, even if you're not putting it in any kind of like retirement funds, you

496
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:11,760
know, SEP IRAs, things like that, put it into a savings account, have a rainy day.

497
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:18,440
I know I talk about it all the time, but having financial, you know, basically

498
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:23,960
peace of mind, it will change the way you behave in so many different ways.

499
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,200
And if you're the person that's going to start a reselling business with, you

500
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,720
know, a credit card, just quit, just quit.

501
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:32,280
You're not, it's not going to work.

502
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,320
If you can't afford it when you first start and you need to sell, you know,

503
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,760
your phone, you have sitting around for 10 plus years that you've never going

504
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:42,600
to use again, like you can easily start this business by cashflow.

505
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:43,640
And so that's 100%.

506
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,160
If you think you're going to start reselling today, um, and your plan is to,

507
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:53,480
you know, go get a chase zero, 0% APR Johnny 5% cash back.

508
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:54,720
I'm going to be rich.

509
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,840
Like this is not for you quit before you even start.

510
00:26:58,840 --> 00:26:59,240
Right.

511
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:04,720
I mean, Mike's a little bit more conservative on this than I would be, but

512
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:09,240
I can't get conscious till the 99.9% of people listening to this to go out and

513
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:13,440
charge stuff to the 0.01% people I'm referring to.

514
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,240
So the Johnny's out there.

515
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:15,720
Sure.

516
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:16,160
Go do it.

517
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:16,480
Yeah.

518
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:17,640
Yeah.

519
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:18,080
I mean,

520
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:20,080
how to do it.

521
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:21,920
Most people don't.

522
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,760
And that's, that's the painful part.

523
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,760
And the other side painful part, you got all the no offense, Mike,

524
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,600
absolutely present company excluded from this next statement.

525
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,160
They all tell you to do it and they're fucking wrong.

526
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:34,400
Yeah.

527
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:35,440
I said fucking wrong.

528
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:40,000
It's the truth.

529
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,200
Um, I think let's do some rapid fire.

530
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:44,880
People we think should quit.

531
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,080
Uh, we're just so crazy things out there.

532
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,520
Like real people we know, cause I got a list.

533
00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:54,080
Dude, I keep a list of everybody right here in front of everybody.

534
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,080
That is right at the top.

535
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:56,240
Now Tommy boys doing everything.

536
00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:00,640
Everybody that joins the channel, like that they have a little stick figure on

537
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:01,400
the wall, right.

538
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,560
And then when I don't hear from her, see him in a month, I just get my dry

539
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,320
eraser and I raise them and then I put a little tombstone with their name on it.

540
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,160
And that's how I keep track of people come and go.

541
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:13,840
And I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

542
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:18,120
I think I've tried things, you know, business wise in the past,

543
00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:19,240
that just didn't work for me.

544
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:24,280
And sometimes it does take somebody else telling you, Hey, this ain't it.

545
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:25,880
Like Johnny, you're wasting your damn time.

546
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:30,000
Like stop trying to, you know, have a hot dog stand in the middle of nowhere,

547
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,080
Texas, like nobody wants to buy your hot dogs.

548
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,600
Oh, it's like be selling a, what are they called?

549
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,200
Uh, ice cones.

550
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:37,920
So they call them.

551
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:38,280
Yes.

552
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,000
The little snow cones, you know, yeah.

553
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,960
Selling snow cones in Michigan and winter.

554
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:42,360
Yeah.

555
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:43,160
Yeah.

556
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,080
But see, the problem is I tell you to stop selling hot dogs and you're like,

557
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:51,400
but, but, but, but like, no, there's no more, buts like that's it.

558
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,320
You gotta, you gotta just leave it alone.

559
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:54,880
Like you gotta do something else.

560
00:28:54,880 --> 00:29:00,280
We just continue to drag along stuff that doesn't make sense in our lives and in

561
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:05,160
our business for no apparent reason other than just to say, Hey, I can go to

562
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:06,960
the thrift store and have some fun.

563
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:12,400
And before we do this rapid fire thing, two things, one, stop putting off what

564
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,520
you're putting off corrected today.

565
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,120
If people prolong issues way too long.

566
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,920
I don't, I can't stand it myself.

567
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:22,400
I deal with it the day.

568
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,920
The worst is it takes me two days to fix a problem.

569
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:30,640
And that's mainly me waiting on other people to that are preventing me.

570
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,200
Like me emailing support back and forth.

571
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:34,640
That's out of my control.

572
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,800
So it may take two days to resolve, or I'm just overloaded with, there's too

573
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,400
many bad things going on and I have to prioritize the badness of the things at

574
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:46,480
the end of that list may have to get pushed off to two days, but very rarely

575
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,520
does anything go beyond a day that's a problem or an issue I'm directly facing

576
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:55,000
that I can't fix or in the process of fixing up, even if it takes me a

577
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,080
week to finish fixing it, I don't start the process the next day.

578
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,480
I deal with it the day of number two.

579
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:10,200
On that same note, if you're dealing with ongoing problems, free yourself of those

580
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:10,680
problems.

581
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:15,560
I'm not talking about correcting it in this, the statement here, that junk

582
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,960
pile that's in the corner, get rid of it.

583
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:18,680
Burn it.

584
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,120
Set on fire for all I care.

585
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:21,000
Get it out of your life.

586
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,560
That's a problem that's in your face every day.

587
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,440
That takes up mental real estate that you could be assigning to your

588
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:27,800
business to make more money.

589
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:34,760
You need to fix the, I don't know, the air conditioner in your vehicle or your

590
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,760
alternator or whatever to make your car go.

591
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,320
So you can go sourcing, go fix your car.

592
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,280
Sorry, I'm only allowed two F words on a podcast.

593
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:43,080
That's right.

594
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:44,120
I've used them.

595
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:48,760
So deal with, fix the issues and eliminate the issues.

596
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:53,240
That's probably the biggest piece of advice I can give you in this episode.

597
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,280
And if you can't do either, GTFO there.

598
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,680
Oh my God, we're becoming like the younger generation.

599
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:03,160
We're just going to use-

600
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:04,440
Like old cranky men.

601
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,720
Like you know, like the Muppets, those two old men heckling everybody in the-

602
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:07,960
Yeah.

603
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,320
Maybe we can start the podcast.

604
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:16,840
Like, you know, for a while there was that like, was that like, well, that's

605
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:18,920
how it started because that's how old crump we are.

606
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:19,480
All right.

607
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:20,840
Rapid fire people that you quit.

608
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:25,320
First one I got for you is that people that think you're going to walk into

609
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:29,400
thrift stores and hit some of these crazy gold bar finds every single time

610
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:30,760
that you like, you see on YouTube.

611
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:32,600
That's a good one.

612
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:37,960
Uh, people who want to talk about philosophy and existential reasons behind

613
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,560
where he's selling.

614
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,880
People who think money doesn't matter.

615
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:50,120
People who think they will liquidate their savings and max their credit

616
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,520
cards after their savings are gone.

617
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:58,600
People who type in the search bar on YouTube, how to cheat and get ahead

618
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,040
and sell it on eBay.

619
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:04,760
People who don't listen to advice given to them by coaches.

620
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:13,240
People who think they can copy six figure, seven figure businesses overnight.

621
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:14,600
Good one.

622
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,600
People who are selling products.

623
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:19,880
They have no business selling.

624
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,720
People who spend more on equipment and trinkets than they do on inventory.

625
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,160
People whose Instagram accounts bigger than their bank account.

626
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:32,200
That's a good one.

627
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,320
That should have been like the, the final like dongle on that.

628
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,320
We have Instagram account bigger than your bank accounts.

629
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:42,600
Holy smokes.

630
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,560
Listen, just cause you're a boomer and you're not on Instagram.

631
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,160
Don't be hating on us out here.

632
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:53,800
You see now I'm completely, I'm at a loss for, I'm at a loss for everything.

633
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:58,840
People who don't want to take the fast dollar today over the $5 in the bank

634
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,320
account in the long run.

635
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:06,360
People switching business models every month.

636
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,160
People who think best offers are the work of the devil.

637
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,200
People who think promoted listings are the work of the devil.

638
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:22,520
If you get offended by a customer message, you're not going to last.

639
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:26,760
Anything else?

640
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:34,120
People who put candies in their packages.

641
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:34,600
I got it.

642
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:35,080
I got it.

643
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:35,960
This is the best one.

644
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,920
People who actively post on the eBay and Amazon forums.

645
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:41,240
Yes.

646
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:46,680
Yes, that is, that is, I mean, maybe when I retire, I'll get involved with the forum

647
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,200
games that go on on eBay.

648
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:52,360
Like people were all bent out of shape when I made that video, but like the forums ain't it.

649
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:53,640
Like, what are you getting out of it?

650
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,800
Like it's just, it's, it's craziness.

651
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:56,440
It's madness.

652
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,320
It's people that have no idea how to run their business and eBay.

653
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,320
I couldn't even find anything related to business.

654
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,120
It's all just like, Hey, let's play hangman today.

655
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:05,480
Let's, let's play hangman.

656
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:06,200
I'll go first.

657
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,440
Or like, let's, let's write a story together.

658
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:13,320
Like maybe we should just do a podcast where we, everybody has a group just writes a story

659
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:14,600
or like a zoom call one week.

660
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:15,720
Like, we'll just go around.

661
00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:16,840
Everybody says one word.

662
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:22,280
It'd be like, remember those little booklets where you could put like a noun, an adjective

663
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:23,800
and then like a verb.

664
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,800
And then like automatically fills it in.

665
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,000
And it's like some crazy story.

666
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,520
Like that's what the eBay forums are.

667
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:29,320
All right, everybody.

668
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:35,880
At the end of the day, if you're not getting the results, it's a, okay to quit, but there's

669
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:40,280
also something to be said about taking a look in the mirror, seeing if you can change something

670
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:45,160
before you throw in the towel and give yourself a reasonable amount of time to see if you can

671
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:46,360
make things work.

672
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:51,960
You should be making money reselling the profits or, you know, the ROI is crazy.

673
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:56,440
Even though people complain about the fees going up, we still can go buy items for under

674
00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:03,480
$10 and sell them on average for, you know, 30 to $50 on the conservative side endlessly.

675
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,360
Because, you know, there's thrift stores everywhere.

676
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:12,440
And on the topic of that, in the last final call I have for you, if you think that you

677
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:17,400
can't find the profitable items in your area just because of your area, you should quit.

678
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:21,640
So we appreciate you listening, watching over on the YouTube and we'll talk about that.

679
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:23,560
We'll talk to you all next week's episode.